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Joseph Benson’s Bible Commentary

Deuteronomy 26:17,18

Avouched Or declared, or owned. Avouched thee Hath owned thee for such before all the world, by eminent and glorious manifestations of his power and favour, by a solemn entering into covenant with thee, and giving peculiar laws, promises, and privileges to thee above all mankind.

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See also Deuteronomy 26:17,18 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Deuteronomy 26:17. _THOU HAST AVOUCHED THE LORD_] The people _avouch _- publicly declare, that they have taken Jehovah to be their God....

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    A brief and earnest exhortation by way of conclusion to the second and longest discourse of the book. Deuteronomy 26:17 THOU HAST AVOUCHED - literally, “made to say:” so also in the next verse. The s...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    22. FIRSTFRUITS AND PRAYER CHAPTER 26 _ 1. The basket of first-fruits, confession and rejoicing (Deuteronomy 26:1)_ 2. Obedience yielded and prayer (Deuteronomy 26:12) 3. Jehovah acknowledges His...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    Concluding exhortations to obedience based upon the covenant (Deuteronomy 4:13 *) between Yahweh and Israel, with its mutual obligations. Deuteronomy 26:17_ f_. AVOUCHED: Heb. caused to say, each of t...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    AVOUCHED. avowed. AND. Note Figure of speech _Polysyndeton_ (App-6) in verses: Deuteronomy 26:17....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _Thou hast avouched the Lord_, etc.] i.e. acknowledged (see Wright's _Bible Word Book_); lit. CAUSED JEHOVAH TO SAY THAT HE WILL BE THY GOD. This form of the Heb. vb. only here and Deuteronomy 26:18....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Concluding Exhortation The proclamation of these laws and the consequent duty of Israel to keep them (Deuteronomy 26:16) constitute a contract between Jehovah and Israel, by which He declares Himself...

  • Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

    DISCOURSE: 218 COVENANTING WITH GOD EXPLAINED Deuteronomy 26:17. Thou hast avouched the Lord this day to be thy God, and to walk in his ways, and to keep his statutes, and his commandments, and his ju...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    _VER._ 17. _THOU HAST AVOUCHED,_ &C.— Thou hast _said, solemnly professed,_ or _protested;_ and so in the 18th verse it is said, _the Lord hath avouched thee,_ &c. the close of which sentence should b...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    (4) CONCLUDING EXHORTATION TO CAREY OUT COMMITMENTS TO GOD AND HIS LAW (Deuteronomy 26:16-19) 16 This day Jehovah thy God commandeth thee to do these statutes and ordinances; thou shalt therefore keep...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    THE PRESENTATION OF FIRSTERUITS AND OF TITHES 1-11. Presentation of the Firstfruits, as a Thankoffering for the mercy of God in delivering the nation from Egypt and in giving them a good land and fru...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    DEUTERONOMY: GOD’S LAW OF LOVE LOVE AND OBEY THE *LORD YOUR GOD DEUTERONOMY _PHILIP SMITH_ CHAPTER 26 V1 ‘The *LORD your God is giving this country to you to possess. You will own it and you wil...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    Deuteronomy 26:16. CLOSE OF THE EXHORTATION. (16) THIS DAY THE LORD THY GOD HATH COMMANDED THEE. — These words are not to be taken as part of the service described in the previous verses, but as the w...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    אֶת ־יְהוָ֥ה הֶאֱמַ֖רְתָּ הַ יֹּ֑ום לִ הְיֹות

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    FIRST-FRUITS AND TITHES Deuteronomy 26:1 The Israelites were God's tenants-at-will. The entire land and its produce were His; and they were required to acknowledge His ownership by the payment of fir...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    Here we have the final movement in the second of these great farewell discourses of Moses. In it the lawgiver lifted his eyes and looked at the land to be possessed, and proceeded to tell the people h...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    I would have the Reader attend to the expressions in these verses, with an eye to the original covenant of grace, and he will then enter into a proper apprehension of them. That original covenant was,...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    It is clear that a new division of the statutes and judgments of this book begins with the later verses just read from Deuteronomy 16:1-22. What belonged to the religious life of Israel was closed wit...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    17._Thou hast avouched the Lord _(231) He shews them from the consequence that nothing can be better or more desirable for them than to embrace God’s Law; for nothing can be more honorable to ourselve...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    To close this succession of ordinances, we have (chap. 26) a most beautiful picture of the worship consequent on the enjoyment of the land according to the promises of God, a picture full of instructi...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    THOU HAST AVOUCHED THE LORD THIS DAY TO BE THY GOD,.... Said, affirmed, protested, and in the most solemn manner declared, that the Lord was their God, and him only; and that they would have no other...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Thou hast avouched the LORD this day to be thy God, and to walk in his ways, and to keep his statutes, and his commandments, and his judgments, and to hearken unto his voice: Ver. 17. _Thou hast avou...

  • KJV Original Language Details

    1 The confession of him that offereth the basket of First fruits. 12 The prayer of him that giueth his third yeere Tithes. 16 The couenant betweene God and the people. 1 AND it shall be when thou a...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Thou hast avouched, said of causing the other party of a contract to say, to make a declaration regarding some intention, THE LORD THIS DAY TO BE THY GOD, AND TO WALK IN HIS WAYS, AND TO KEEP HIS STAT...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    KEEPING THE COVENANT...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    FIRSTFRUITS AND TITHES (vs.1-15) In Amalek we have seen that which God refuses. Now a lovely positive contrast is seen in that which God accepts. The Lord giving Israel their promised land, and He wo...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    16-19 Moses here enforces the precepts. They are God's laws, therefore thou shalt do them, to that end were they given thee; do them, and dispute them not; do them, and draw not back; do them, not ca...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    AVOUCHED, or _declared_, or _professed_, or _owned_. This day, i.e. at this time, in this wilderness, where thou hast accepted and ratified God's covenant....

  • Notes on the Pentateuch by Charles Henry Mackintosh

    "And it shall be, _ when thou shalt come in_ unto the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee for an inheritance, and _ possessest_ it, and _ dwellest_ therein; that thou shalt take of the first of al...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Deuteronomy 26:17 Today H3117 proclaimed H559 (H8689) LORD H3068 God H430 walk H3212 (H8800) ways H1870 keep

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    VII THE COVENANT CEREMONY (DEUTERONOMY 26:16 TO DEUTERONOMY 27:26). The covenant having been fully outlined and declared, and the tribute having been offered, the covenant ceremony can now be prepare...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Law of the offering of the firstfruits. CHARACTERS: God, Moses. CONCLUSION: We are to acknowledge God as giver of all good things which are the support and comfort of our natural lives and...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Deuteronomy 26:5. _A Syrian ready to perish._ The whole Hebrew family came from Mesopotamia, and Jacob repassed the Euphrates with only a staff in his hand. It is good to remember that we rose from th...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    DEUTERONOMY—NOTE ON DEUTERONOMY 26:1__ The final section of specific laws deals with the offering of firstfruits and tithes in the land. ⇐...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL NOTES.—The rehearsal of rights and duties, pubilc and private, terminates in this chapter with two liturgical enactments. These have a clear and close reference to the whole of the preceding...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION THANKSGIVING AND PRAYER AT THE PRESENTATION OF FIRSTFRUITS AND TITHES. As Moses began his exposition of the laws and rights instituted for Israel by a reference to the sanctuary as the pla...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Deuteronomy, beginning with chapter 26. Again it is important that we set the scene for you. Here's Moses, one hundred and twenty years old. In just a few days he's going to go up into the mountain an...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Corinthians 6:19; 1 Corinthians 6:20; 1 Kings 2:3; 1 Kings 2:4;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Avouched — Or, declared, or owned....

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